Josefa
Josefa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. Its best rank was 554th, in 1890.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192584 births
- Best rank
- #554in 1890
- Since 1881
- 4,050people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,050 girls have been named Josefa in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1925, with 84 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 51 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Josefa | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 88 | |
| 1890s | 192 | |
| 1900s | 230 | |
| 1910s | 482 | |
| 1920s | 726 | |
| 1930s | 498 | |
| 1940s | 372 | |
| 1950s | 343 | |
| 1960s | 278 | |
| 1970s | 239 | |
| 1980s | 197 | |
| 1990s | 157 | |
| 2000s | 103 | |
| 2010s | 91 | |
| 2020s | 54 |
In 1925, its biggest year
Josefa was the 811th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1925 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1925.
Names that rose and fell with Josefa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rosinapeak 1924
- Letapeak 1918
- Rosepeak 1917
- Easterpeak 1925
- Pansypeak 1916
- Unapeak 1921
- Almapeak 1918
- Nevapeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.